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Rajnath Singh invites US defence firms to help India meet export target

$2.5 bn defence exports to the US in 5 years, which is 35% of all defence exports

Rajnath Singh
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Defence Minister Rajnath Singh says Indian and US firms needed to make full use of the Industrial Security Annexure to participate in each other’s supply chains

Ajai Shukla New Delhi
Orders from US companies have boosted India’s defence exports and created employment in India, said Defence Minister Rajnath Singh.
 
He said Indian firms have exported “around $2.5 billion to the US in the last five years, which is 35 per cent of total defence exports achieved during the period”.
 
Even so, India remains well short of the manufacturing and export targets specified in the Ministry of Defence’s (MoD’s) Defence Production Policy of 2018 (DProP 2018), which sets as its aim: “To achieve a turnover of Rs 1,70,000 crore (US $26 billion approximately) in aerospace and defence goods and

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